Curated category
American corporate subsidiaries
- Condé NastCondé Nast began with a single purchase: in 1909, a New York City-born publisher named Condé Montrose Nast bought Vogue, a weekly journal of society and…
- GoogleGoogle began in January 1996 as a research project by two PhD students at Stanford University, Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
- TikTokTikTok was launched into the international market in September 2017, but the question of who actually controls it has never been fully settled.
- CBS SportsCBS Sports was formed on the 11th of April, 1955, making it one of the longer-running sports broadcasting operations in American television history.
- Morgan StanleyThe firm formally opened its doors for business on the 16th of September 1935, at 2 Wall Street in New York City. This specific date marked the birth of…
- The Plain DealerIn January 1842, two brothers named Joseph William Gray and Admiral Nelson Gray took over a struggling publication called The Cleveland Advertiser.
- Paramount PicturesParamount Pictures was founded on the 8th of May 1912, making it older than almost every film studio on earth. Only a handful of European companies and one…
- CBSCBS traces its roots not to television but to a small radio venture launched on the 27th of January 1927 by a New York City talent agent named Arthur Judson.
- Georgia-PacificGeorgia-Pacific began not with paper mills or tissue factories, but with a single wholesale hardwood lumber yard in Augusta, Georgia, on the 22nd of…
- Sony Pictures ClassicsIn January 1992, three former Orion Classics executives launched a new division inside Sony Pictures. Michael Barker, Tom Bernard, and Marcie Bloom…
- LucasfilmGeorge Lucas established Lucasfilm on the 10th of December 1971 in San Rafael, California. The company began with just five employees working out of a small…